A Mason family was displaced after a chimney fire spread to a wall, causing both fire and smoke damage to their home, and the fire was contained to a single wall, with smoke damage to the rest of the ...

A fire near Katherine has burnt more than $3 million of hay. The business owner said the situation could have been "10 times worse" if not for the quick response of authorities and neighbours. The ...

With just 72 hours and way too much ambition, we transformed our home into a “hotel” — complete with guests, service, and surprises no real hotel would dare attempt. Snow alerts issued for 17 states ...

Industrial forest biomass wood pellet mills now dot rural areas around the globe, with plants concentrated in the U.S. Southeast, and other major facilities found in Canada, the EU, Russia, Vietnam, ...

Buyers of newly built homes are sometimes shocked to see their property-tax bills skyrocket after the first year. Americans' property-tax bills have risen sharply in recent years. But the newest ...

The architect Jennifer Kell and Dominic Surprenant, a retired lawyer, hired the firm Lake Flato to design a home with multiple structures in Malibu, Calif. With courtyards and outdoor walkways, a home ...

Modular homes are quickly becoming one of the tools developers are using to confront the housing crisis in New York City. The homes are built in one area and then transported to permanent locations ...

Susan Conway and her husband, Dr. Bill Conway, spent a year looking for a suitable place to live in their retirement. The five-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot Colonial in Birmingham, Mich., where they ...

This week we feature a new home that is among about two dozen in the 2025 PA Parade of Homes, sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Harrisburg. This home offers a sampling of what ...

A Pasadena, California, home that’s considered a “masterful example” of post-and-beam modernism is on the market for $2.75 million. It was designed in 1954 by noted architecture firm Buff, Straub and ...

Fischer Homes is a real estate developer that builds custom homes, offering single-family detached houses, townhomes, condominiums and duplexes that customers design and build from the ground up.

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — When students in New Hampshire high schools began building planes, they didn’t expect the aircraft’s designer to be available for questions. But that’s what will happen when ...